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Djiezes Kraaijst

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes - 0 views

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shared by Djiezes Kraaijst on 07 Sep 08 - Cached
  • Richard Foreman's "pancake people" essay was originally distributed to members of the audience for Foreman's play The Gods Are Pounding My Head. It was reprinted in Edge. I first noted the essay in my 2005 blog post Beyond Google and Evil.
  • Neil Postman's translation of the excerpt from Plato's Phaedrus, which can be found at the start of Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
  • Alan Turing's 1936 paper on the universal computer was titled On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.
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  • Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason
  • Mumford’s later two-volume study The Myth of the Machine.
  • Lewis Mumford discusses the impact of the mechanical clock in his 1934 Technics and Civilization.
  • I found the story of Friedrich Nietzsche’s typewriter in J. C. Nyíri's essay Thinking with a Word Processor as well as Friedrich A. Kittler’s winningly idiosyncratic Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and Darren Wershler-Henry’s history of the typewriter, The Iron Whim.
  • Maryanne Wolf’s fascinating Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
  • study of the behavior of online researchers is here.
  • Scott Karp’s blog post about how he’s lost his capacity to read books can be found here, and Bruce Friedman’s post can be found here. Both Karp and Friedman believe that what they’ve gained from the Internet outweighs what they’ve lost.
  • The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, “iGod.”
  • Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I’ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I’ve tried to round them up below.
  • "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes
Matteo Busanelli

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shared by Matteo Busanelli on 05 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • In SMW 1.6.0, stores are required to accept updates and queries that do not specify a graph but it is planned to remove this limitation in the future.
  • The first line tells SMW to use the SPARQL store implementation to store data (instead of the SMWSQLStore2 that is the default). The remaining lines provide the relevant service locations, where the last line can be omitted if not applicable. By default, SMW will use a generic SPARQL connector that is based on recent SPARQL documents. Some RDF databases might not be fully compatible with this or might need special tweaks to make use of advanced, non-standard features. For this purpose, it is possible to change the SPARQL connector that SMW uses by setting the variable $smwgSparqlDatabase. In SMW 1.6.0, there is only one special connector:
  • $smwgSparqlDatabase = 'SMWSparqlDatabase4Store';
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  • Missing experience regarding performance and stability: There are a number of industry-strength RDF databases available today, some of them free/open source. Yet, the experience of using these systems with SMW are still limited, so some testing is needed before deciding on a particular backend for a large-scale SMW application.
  • no named graphs are used in SMW queries
  • Matteo Busanelli on 05 Aug 11
     
    By default, SMW stores all data in the MySQL database that is used by MediaWiki. This ensures a simple setup but it is not an ideal solution for the data format and data access methods that SMW needs. A more natural data model for SMW data is RDF, a data format that organizes information in graphs rather than in fixed database tables. It is possible to use such systems in addition to the SQL database for managing SMW data and for answering queries. This page explains the details
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